3. TravelBird (Amsterdam)

4. Snappcar (Amsterdam)

With the average car unused 23 hours a day, this private car rental app for the peer-to-peer sharing community allows people to hire their wheels to a stranger.

5. Wolt (Helsinki)

An app that lets you order and pre-pay for a meal in a high-street restaurant, telling you when it will be ready for collection or home delivery.

6. GoButler (Berlin)

A personal assistant that will book flights, send flowers, reserve tables in restaurants and deliver “anything legal” via 24/7 SMS messaging – all for free. Available in the US, Canada, UK, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

7. Moovit (Tel Aviv)

Real-time travel schedules for subways, trains and buses around the city, so you know exactly when your ride will be arriving, even if it is running late.

8. Blacklane (Berlin)

On-demand chauffeur-driven Mercedes, BMWs and VW Phaetons for hourly or one-way journeys. Available in 180 cities including New York, London, Los Angeles and Paris.

9. WorldRemit (London)

A money transfer service that charges less than high-street banks and can be credited in the form of an account deposit, cash for collection, mobile wallet transfer or Airtime top-up.

10. JustPark (London)

No more pay and display – hire a private parking space outside someone’s house or office, or rent out your own. BMW and Rolls-Royce are adding the technology to their vehicles’ dashboards.